Beef
Liver fluke has continued to have a presence in a considerable number of cattle herds across the country since early January...
Beef Technical
If animals were infected by liver fluke in the previous grazing season prior to housing, those parasites will now be adults be visible at slaughter.
To avoid a potential setback in performance or growth rates, an effective parasite control plan should be drawn up and implemented.
The extent to which Irish beef cattle are suffering from liver fluke has been identified by Animal Health Ireland (AHI).
More online tools are now available to farmers to search and analyse information at herd health level, as part of the Beef HealthCheck Programme.
